Dr. Oliver examined her, found the blue line along her
gums, which shows that the system is under the influence
of the lead. He knew that the convulsions would shortly
return. They did so, and she died.

Mary Ann Toler a girl of seventeen, who had never
had a fit in her life three times became ill and had to
leave off work in the factory. Before she was nineteen
she showed symptoms of lead poisoning had fits, frothed
at the mouth, and died.

Mary A., an unusually vigorous woman, was able to
work in the lead factory for twenty years, having colic
once only during that time. Her eight children all died
in early infancy from convulsions. One morning, whilst
brushing her hair, this woman suddenly lost all power in
both her wrists.

Eliza H., aged twenty-five, after five months at lead
works, was seized with colic. She entered another factory
(after being refused by the first one) and worked on unin
terruptedly for two years. Then the former symptoms
returned, she was seized with convulsions, and died in two
days of acute lead poisoning.

Mr. Vaughan Nash, speaking of the unborn gen
eration, says: " The children of the white lead
worker enter the world, as a rule, only to die from
the convulsions of lead poisoning they are either
born prematurely, or die within the first year."

And, finally, let me instance the case of Harriet
A. Walker, a young girl of seventeen, killed while
leading a forlorn hope on the industrial battlefield.
She was employed as an enamelled ware brusher,

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